Bill Foster

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George William Foster (born October 7, 1955) is an American businessman, physicist, and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 11th congressional district since 2013. He was the U.S. representative for Illinois's 14th congressional district from 2008 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Foster was born in 1955 in Madison, Wisconsin. As a teenager, he attended James Madison Memorial High School. He received his Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1976 and his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 1983. The title of his doctoral dissertation is "An experimental limit on proton decay: p → p o s i t r o n + π 0 {\displaystyle p\rightarrow \mathrm {positron} +\pi ^{0}} ." When Foster was 19, he started a company with his younger brother, Fred. The company, Electronic Theatre Controls, has become a manufacturer of theatrical lighting fixtures and control systems. After completing his Ph.D., Foster moved to the Fox Valley with his family to pursue a career in high-energy (particle) physics at Fermilab, a Department of Energy National Laboratory.